No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.